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- Help Others, Help Your Mind… You do what you can not to provoke greed, aversion, delusion in yourself, and you don’t try to provoke greed, aversion, and delusion in others. As you do that, you develop qualities that will help you on your path, train both your heart and your mind to the point where you see that they really are part of the same thing, and that …
- Paying Off Your Debts… And you realize that by not getting them to break the precepts, or actually getting them to observe the precepts, and getting them to overcome as much as they can any greed, aversion, and delusion in their minds, that’s when you’re really being helpful. This is a gift of the Dhamma. Sometimes we think of the gift of the Dhamma simply as …
- Lust… Try to think about the ways in which lust, aversion, and delusion are really not your friends. You might think of them as pets you keep around the house. But they’re the kind of pets, like snakes and wildcats, that if you’re not careful are going to turn around, bite you, and eat you up. So it’s important to think about …
- How & Why We Meditate… Part of the mind will complain because, of course, the mind still has its greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s not the case that you sit down, close your eyes, and they all go away. They hide out for a while, but they’re going to come up again. And they’re going to complain: They’d rather do this, think that, go here …
- Perfection in an Imperfect World… He started out with greed, aversion, and delusion just like ours. But he was able to find qualities in his mind that he could develop: the resolution, ardency, and heedfulness that allowed him to get past those defilements. Now, we have those qualities in ourselves to some extent. Heedfulness is when you see the dangers that can come when you act in unskillful ways …
- Dhamma Medicine… greed, anger, and delusion. These are big troublemakers in the mind because they cause you to see things wrongly. We think something may be in our best interest, but it’s not. Greed may cloud our vision, anger can cloud our vision, and delusion is the biggest cloud of all. In addition, we like doing things that are actually harmful, and we don’t …
- Stepping Out of Yourself… Greed will tell you one thing, anger will tell you something else, delusion will tell you something else, sometimes they all get together and tell you the same thing, but they’re all telling you things that may not be good for you. If those are the only voices you have in your mind, you tend to go with them. Here we’re giving …
- Guardian Meditations… Passion has its reasons; aversion has its reasons; delusion has its reasons. The thing is that their reasons don’t stand up to much scrutiny. When the mind is really clear and you’re really on top of these things and you can actually see them as the Buddha says, “as something separate,” then you can see how weak their reasoning is. So of …
- Conviction in Charge… And are you sticking with that original intention to find that true happiness, or are you wandering off someplace else? And who’s in charge? Is your conviction in charge? Or is your greed, aversion, or delusion in charge—or somebody else’s greed, aversion, or delusion in charge? Because the mind is complex. It’s like a committee. It’s got lots of …
- The Dhamma Wheel… Comprehending, we learn from another sutta in the Canon, means comprehending to the point of having no more passion, aversion, and delusion around it. Ordinarily we wouldn’t think that we’d have any passion for suffering. But remember, the Buddha’s definition of suffering is clinging to the five aggregates. We’re pretty passionate about that clinging. We cling to these things—form …
- Inner Negotiating Skills… Your greed, aversion, and delusion want to pull you off in different directions away from the path. So you need a healthy set of ego functions—in other words, internal skills for negotiating—so that you can get everybody on the same page. After all, every voice in your mind wants happiness—it’s just that they have very different notions of what that …
- Good at Thinking… On a deeper level, passion, aversion, and delusion: These are the qualities of the mind that cause you to do unskillful things. But there are also times in the mind when there’s no passion, no aversion, no delusion—everything is very clear. And in times like that, you tend to act in skillful ways. So it’s not an issue of, “You are …
- Independent Values… We’re comfortable in our delusion. Yet those are precisely the things that cause us suffering. When you realize this, you should develop an attitude where you’re willing to let go of these things. You see through them. You see that they have some attractions, but they also have lots of drawbacks. You learn to balance the attractions against the drawbacks, and see …
- Getting Yourself… They’re the customs of people with defilement, based on greed, anger, and delusion. He was more interested in the customs of the noble ones, customs that had been set down by people who had no greed, no anger, no delusion. So we take that as our guide. There’s nothing in the Buddha’s teachings simply to please people. All the teachings are …
- Clinging-Aggregates in Context… And comprehension is defined as developing lack of passion, lack of aversion, lack of delusion for them. In other words, you’re not passionate about identifying with them, but at the same time you don’t hate them. The Buddha’s not telling you to hate yourself. And h certainly doesn’t want you to be deluded about them. He simply wants you to …
- In Alignment… What you want is the Buddha’s middle, and it may be a little bit hard to get used to if we’ve broken precepts in the past, or if our life is involved in a lot in greed, aversion, and delusion. It’s like any process where, say, you try to get your body into alignment. You go for a treatment, and the …
- Dealing with Confusion… This is why there’s so much delusion in our lives. When you first look at these three stages of action, it’s pretty disconcerting. You see all the different things in your mind that you really don’t like—all the unskillful voices, all the unskillful motives. This is why you want to get the breath as comfortable as possible so that you …
- A Healthy Ego… Greed aversion, delusion, and sensual craving: These are the things that push you away, and they’re the ones you have to learn how to overcome. But at the same time, you also learn how to promote the desires that would lead to true happiness. So the function of your ego is to learn how to negotiate between this whole set of desires and …
- Right Effort… In other words, when you see greed or anger or delusion arising in the mind, ask yourself, “How is the breath going right now?” See if you can change the mind state by changing the way you breathe. That, of course, will involve verbal fabrications: directed thought and evaluation. Instead of chattering on to yourself about how much you want something, how much you …
- Quick on the Draw… But exactly which part of your nature are you going to trust? Are you going to trust the greed, the anger, or the delusion? Because they’re in there, too. Fortunately, they’re not embedded in our nature, but they are qualities we have developed over time. And they have their reasons. They have their arguments. They have their ways of luring you into …
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